When Mary Slessor sailed to the African nation of Calabar now Nigeria in the late s she was enthusiastic to continue the missionary work of the late David Livingstone Her first assignment teaching school while living among fellow missionaries left her burdened for a different way to serve So she did something rare in that region mdash she moved in with the people she was serving Mary learned their language lived their way and ate their food She even took in dozens of children who rsquo d been abandoned For nearly forty years she brought hope and the gospel to [... more]